20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
5:49 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by C. Sullivan
First off, for 99% of us in the universe nowadays, C64Term for the PC
(as suggested on the website) simply won't work. Pretty much every
computer sold in the last 10 years is equipped with a Winmodem, and
real "hardware" modems have been impossible to find for the last 5.
*Impossible*?!! I bought an external US Robotics 56K modem a few
years ago from CompUSA and it has been working fine all that time
on my QNX box through Vonage.
Now it looks like CompUSA does not sell the *external* version
anymore, but NewEgg still does. You can usually tell it is a
*real* modem as the cost is closer to $100 instead of $10 - $20
for the WinModems...
I personally don't know of a better solution,
other than to use a C64
emulator and bind to whatever modem people have. I don't know what
the answer is, but hopefully somebody can figure out a Windows-
compatible solution.
C64 + IDE64? :) But I don't think there is any BBS software (yet!)
that supports the IDE64.
Note: there is also the DUART for the IDE64 which adds a dual port
RS-232 interface. Or the ETH64 which adds an ethernet port...
Cheers,
Bryan